Mac Type Background Designing in Photoshop

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious –your desktop– as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (Powerpoint presentations, Flash work, etc). Naturally, you would like to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Here you can see the Final Image & try to do it.Good luck!

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Mac Background Designing in Photoshop

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious –your desktop– as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (Powerpoint presentations, Flash work, etc). Naturally, you wouldn’t want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Good luck!

Step 1:

We begin with a blank canvas and then draw a subtle gradient across it. (I’m using a 1280×1024 canvas here.)
Don’t be fooled by the black border, incidentally, that’s just Photoshop. So anyhow, I’ve chosen two orange colors that are similar to each other to make a very subtle gradient indeed.

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